Local culture
A group in a particular place that sees itself as a community
Popular culture
A large, heterogeneous population, typically urban, with rapidly changing culture
Nonmaterial culture
Beliefs, practices, values
Material culture
Constructed items, frequently expressing nonmaterial culture
Assimilation policies
To force people of indigenous cultures to adopt dominant cultures
Customs
Practices that people routinely follow
Anabaptists
type of Protestant Christians; many migrated to N. America to escape persecution in Europe
Distance-decay
More interaction between closer places than between more distant places
Time-space compression
Interaction dependent on connectedness among places